ლაყე

Georgian

Etymology

According to Bläsing from Persian لق (laq), لغ (lağ, “an addle egg”), whence also Armenian լակ (lak).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /laqʼe/, [ɫaχʼe]
  • Hyphenation: ლა‧ყე

Adjective
indeclinable

ლაყე • (laq̇e) (comparative უფრო ლაყე, superlative ყველაზე ლაყე)

  1. (of an egg) addle

Inflection
Adjectival declension of ლაყე
Case adjective
nominative, genitive, instrumental ლაყე (laq̇e)
ergative ლაყე (laq̇e)
dative, adverbial ლაყე (laq̇e)
vocative ლაყე (laq̇e)

Derived terms
  • ლაყე თავი (laq̇e tavi)

References
  1. Bläsing, Uwe (2008) “Georgian laq̇e, an 'addle egg' in Kartvelian: Review of a Georgian Etymology”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 12, number 1, pages 45–55

Further reading
  • Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “ლაყე”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 107, together with Laz ლოყა (loqa, “sweet”) derives Proto-Georgian-Zan *laq̣e-
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